Creating a large, central source of expert advice to the PM in the PMO would only create conflict and confusion inside the government and sideline ministers and their departments. That’s not a recipe for efficiency or effectiveness.
Given the rampant affordability concerns currently capturing Canadian attention, the government that oversees improvements in this area will win the loyalty of a generation, regardless of class.
The point of Canada’s federal NDP seems not to be to win, nor even to advance a narrow cause. It seems simply to exist for its own sake, occasionally finding comfort in passing party policy resolutions that read like half-baked social studies masters’ theses.
Canada must reset its approach to transit building with a goal to ratchet subway costs back down so that we can build the transit we so desperately need.
For both the job market and inflation, Canada is showing some separation from the U.S., and we suspect that will drive a small separation between BoC and Fed rate policy in coming months.
Poilievre’s recruitment of candidates like Jivani signals at least an openness to bringing in new MPs who are willing to criticize not only progressives but also other conservatives on culture and economics.
The system seems too slow, too weak, and too risk-averse to meet its basic obligations and prepare the country for the long-term challenges that it faces. In short, bigger government hasn’t produced better government.
On the morning of April 4th, convinced his ordeal would never end, Herbert Norman said goodbye to his wife, went up to a rooftop, and jumped to his death.
Butler wants to eliminate the very idea of motherhood and women, arguing instead that biological sex, like gender, is nothing but a social deception. Butler, who uses the pronouns they and them, goes further and claims that the body’s genitalia is itself socially constructed.
This week in politics the big stories included the Liberal government’s funding announcement for a national school food program, Trudeau’s criticisms of his own government’s immigration policies, and new analysis of income growth numbers in Canada.
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